[He cocks his head briefly to one side, half debating whether he should hear those details anyway. It might be to a point of being unavoidable, depending on what Thawne opts to do in Wonderland.

And how Leonard chooses to react to this new knowledge.]

It's--difficult to say. [He would at least be honest, however, so much as Rip can be. With a sigh he lowers his hand again, but only so much to gesture in front of him.]

I would agree that if you were defeated and captured, your memory has most likely been erased in some fashion. It would be the only way to preserve the timeline, including your sacrifice at the Oculus.

[But that's not exactly what Leonard asked, is it?]

If that assumption is wrong, however--then another trip home might have you remember. It's complicated, but remember that time needs time to harden. Someone going back and altering your personal timeline may not have happened yet in a grander scheme of a universal timeline.

You remember that business with the Pilgrim. [He glances briefly towards Leonard, although Rip doesn't need the confirmation.] One might assume that since our final confrontation had already happened at a point in my personal timeline, I would have childhood memories of it before my participation as an adult. Yet I didn't until a time after it happened for us as Legends--and now, I can recall the instance from both perspectives.

[Which is actually somewhat odd, now that Rip really thinks about it.]

The same is true in your case.